If you need to go out, however, and you don’t have any rock salt for melting the ice that’s sure to form on your driveway and walkway, then your strategy might be to try to clear the snow at ...

"When the weather turns cold, windy and snowy, many of us prefer to stay indoors and keep warm at home," Darci Webber writes.

The reason why salt is applied to ice is complicated, so let’s go back to high school chemistry again. Remember that the freezing point of water is at or below 32°F, basically, the water ...

With the fall of snow and forming of ice in a Wisconsin winter comes along salt, and a lot of it. That's why efforts are ...

Amazon shoppers agree that it is one of the best-safe ice melters on the market, giving it a 4.5-star rating with over 7,600 reviews. The melter is easy to use. Simply spread the pellets evenly on the ...

Just like too much salt in our diet can be bad for our health, too much salt on roads and sidewalks is bad for plant and ...

Sodium chloride (rock salt or halite) is often used on roads, driveways and sidewalks. It's relatively inexpensive and keeps ice from accumulating on surfaces. It can damage concrete, kill ...

All NCDOT departments keep salt on hand for winter weather like this, he said. Salt is used to create the "anti-ice" solution to prepare roads for snow and again used to de-ice roads after icy ...

As winter storms sweep across the region, pet experts are cautioning pet owners about the dangers of traditional road salt and ice melt products.

The Transportation Department says it will not put salt on the other parts of I-10 because the area is too vast to cover with ...